skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally you'd expect the market to deal with it how it normally does, which is to have people open up competing practices to undercut them. I think the problem is that VC has correctly identified this as not only a field where people are willing to pay a lot based on emotion, but it's also regulated enough that their strategy of buying out existing practices leaves them fairly safe from a lot of competition. I wouldn't be surprised if non-competes factor heavily into their strategy either.

In that case I would hope the government could at least step in to combat anti-competitive behavior (which I think this definitely is), but that always seems to lag a decade after it's first needed.
> social warmth, and a personal connection

Yes, definitely, though people going the full-remote route tend to get enough of it to not seek more in the work environment. It's the first time I've ever been in a team where half the people are either actively parenting (taking the kids to school etc.) or fully engaged in a different activity circle (side gigs are ok).

Discussions are fun during offline events/retreats, just not during the meetings.

> resilient to worker exploitation.

Thanks, this is an important angle I didn't consider. I wouldn't drop that kind of inquiry in a casual discussion, but it's something that needs its time and place to check on.
This is cool, i wonder if it would help prove the integer box conjectute?
How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term?

Far more aggressive progressive taxation.
There's the general legal principle that everything not explicitly forbidden in writing is allowed.

And often even laws already on the books are half-heartedly enforced.
The exact opposite actually starbucks and others that are similar are for people who aren't stuck up and have things to get done so they need something quick since they didn't have time to make it at home.

Coffee is for caffeine to get work done, to me an iced latte or ice coffee from Starbucks tastes just fine compared some $10 latte at some over hyped coffee shop.

Corona and lime is good also not sure why people hate on it. No one cares how cool the craft beer drinkers think they are.
Exploit for Minecraft uses LLL lattice reduction, to locate all players in world [video]
https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation
I really don’t like to put down the creative work of others, but yeah. The motion stuff made me realize just how great UIs like Win95 and early Mac System were. I love creativity and experimentation, but I dislike lots of motion, lots of animation, and especially stuff that moves under my cursor without me moving it.
Id rather try regulation.
Boeing Starliner Flight of NASA Astronauts Is Scrubbed
Presumably any CalDAV server would be sufficient. But I’m sure there are gotchas.
Nice! I wrote one running in text-mode, which I ran for years on an old, non-networked, Raspberry Pi 2 (no WiFi capability on that one). I'd need to unlock my app with a password. I just reused some Java TOTP API and wrote a tiny app around it.
Yes, obviously you could just email HTML before MIME existed. That's not the point of the discussion at hand.
Lawless wasteland!
There are a lot of different PE firms that do a lot of different things, but I usually think they get the blame for systems that were broken long before they got there.

They only own a small percentage of the real estate market (like sub 2%) but I see ten articles about them buying homes for every one about the real issues that are leading to the housing crisis, such as NIMBYism, other abusive local regulatory schemes, lack of tradespeople, etc. The people who are fucking up the system want you to worry about the PE firms instead.

The way to get it sorted is to fix the market dynamics that have lead to ridiculous housing price increases. They’ll move on to greener pastures when homes in good markets aren’t appreciating at high rates.

Vet care is increasing in cost pretty rapidly due to lack of supply, so the answer is more vet schools, perhaps government backed loans for people who want to open clinics, etc.

Don’t fight the symptom (you can’t) fight the disease.
I could ramble about this subject for longer and harder than anything I know about.

Not only do I have a dim view of the efficacy of mental health interventions in general and see pretty much zero evidence they have done anything positive in the last quarter century, scholastic mental health seems particularly devoid of evidence-based medicine, and involves a lot more of people just winging it. There's perverse incentives by parents (who get more government support, or preferential treatment for their children) and schools (who get more funding, and lower standards in examinations). There is also a systemic bias towards deterministically blaming children's permanent unchanging nature without actual concrete proof this is the case, because that absolves the school and parents of any blame or responsibility for failure or disappointment. Diagnosis's made based on subjective criteria once during a child's development by a single practitioner are treated as ironclad lifelong unquestionable truths and prophecies.

Children are told from early childhood that people who act a certain way are mentally ill, are delayed behind others, are disordered. They are not told neutrally or positively some medial terms that describe their true selves, look into the diagnostic criteria's used, they are resoundingly negative and frequently use words like "Defect" and "Dysfunction". Why pathologize people so? Well because it's politically necessary if you're going to show favouritism towards this group of people with tax breaks, government support, social leeway, insurance coverage, and so on. Then as more and more resources allocated to these people, we discover the children we haven't allocated resources to are struggling. Whatever child is struggling most is clearly just a person with unidentified mental illness, and once they've identified or self-identified as such, they may as well buy into the system since they already are facing the stigma. The support they get is nominally evidence-based but often the intervention was often tested on a very different child in very different circumstances than who is getting the treatment (if at all), even if they're diagnosed with the same pathology.

I see the biggest fundamental problems being out of control pathologization, and the usual absence of any up-to-date objective measurement of the value of mental health interventions (except in this case).
Show HN: I built a console log to detect and prevents leaking secrets
While working with junior engineers you can't avoid all mistakes. I’ve lost count of how many times a junior engineer accidentally pushed something into a dev branch that either contained secrets/credentials etc. or that leaked those into logs/std. out.

Securelog was made to make sure even when devs leak secrets mistaken, they are detected and prevented from ever getting to production.
It’s not just vets it’s plumbing, hvac, medical practices. Small PE funds consolidate a few small ones then sell to a bigger PE fund which consolidates a bunch of those and so on
Ahh ok thanks for the clarification, that makes sense
I don't see anything about Usenet service on there. More generally, while a few people are willing to pay for access to a discussion service, most aren't and it's not clear that the people who are are a big enough market to be viable.
Then simply say, "Lix, a delicious implementation of the Nix package manager". The word modern is developers "game changer". It's so over used to the point of nauseating.
Locally, the answer was that the folks who could open up a competing practice were under non-compete agreements if they left the PE-owned place. (We had a local legislator step in to help void them.)

https://news.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=210&catId=3115&Id=1186...

> Marion said early efforts to enlist former VSES doctors or others in the community to start an ER were discouraging. Some VSES doctors had already left the area, some had signed contracts for new jobs locally, most were worried about the constraints of noncompete agreements they signed with Thrive, and "no one seemed eager to take on the tremendous responsibility of owning, managing and running an emergency hospital even with the help and support of the local veterinary community."
MJML is easily the best tool of its kind and I use it a lot. If anyone is trying to build emails in 2024, it's a major shortcut that helps avoid and mitigate some of HTML email’s biggest headaches.
"It cannot cost that much to start a vet clinic" implies vets are cheap.

There is not an infinite supply of vets, especially those free from debt and who can borrow enough to start a practice.
I would agree, Rust is not safe. We need to encourage more formal rigor in our craft and avoid misconceptions like 'safe Rust' or 'safe Python'. Thus my original comment :P
> Far more aggressive progressive taxation.

Why would increasing taxes lower costs for anything? If anything they’d have to raise prices further to compensate for additional tax payments.
On the other hand, vets have a high tendency to care about animal well-being.
Starliner Launch Delayed After Issue Identified with Rocket Valve
Not the only way. You can do what Bill Gates did, and buy all the surrounding properties. In his case, some of his staff live there.
I definitely would not be able to live without my C-o's and gd's. Making the research process persistent is the next step forward IMO. We want the machine to extend your mental context.
This is capitalism working as intended. It's no an aberration. It's not a few bad apples. This is quite literally what capitalism is: it's building an enclosure and then jacking up the price. It's rent-seeking. It's regulatory capture.

Private equity is infecting every aspect of your life and the tactics are the same:

1. Cut costs;

2. Jack up the prices;

3. Block competition by buying them up, legislation/regulation, etc; and

4. Loading the entity up with debt and cash out before it explodes.

No value is being created or added. It's pure wealth extraction. Some cases are essentially state violence (eg buying up mobile home parks). Others are just downright immoral, like exploiting the love people have for their pets here.
https://github.com/kubernetes-client/javascript

Full disclosure I haven’t tried this but I’m curious if you have. The main component of a controller is its k8s client, so go will always have an advantage, but this JS client looks somewhat decently maintained
Well said. This is a nothing-burger for all VPNs except the ones that are likely heavily leaking already due to the absence of basic firewall rules.

Their "side channel attack" also made me spit out my drink.

EDIT: looks like NordVPN (at least on mac) doesn't have those basic firewall rules and so IS vulnerable to this exploit.
Correct, that’s the problem, which is what I said. Not PE firms, lack of veterinarians.
Haven't we had battery chemistries change in less noticable ways over maybe 50 years? Mostly lead-acid batteries (both wet cell and dry cell), then alkaline batteries, nicad, nimh, lithium ion batteries, lithium polymer, lifep04, and more
Is this only for C or does it support other languages? It might be helpful if you site contains some more details about things like this?
> Far more aggressive progressive taxation

At least in veterinary care, a major way to buy practices on the cheap is in finding vets who are behind on state taxes.
Sweet, they should start clinics and not sell them to PE firms.
> It cannot cost that much to start a vet clinic

In 2011 it was around a million according to one article I read. I'm guessing it's way more now.
I've been following the Screams Without Words story and I don't think it's really comparable to something that was basically confirmed to be false. The NYT stands behind the report

> We remain confident in the accuracy of our reporting and stand by the team’s investigation which was rigorously reported, sourced and edited.

A lot of the "debunking" seems fairly weak in my opinion. E.g. Gal Abdush's brother in law made a rather baseless statement that "the media invented" Gal's rape. Really the article was reporting what Israeli police believed, mainly based on (non-public) video evidence which the Times reporters also reviewed.

I think it would be comparable if Israeli police retracted their claims and stated that Gal was not raped. Then surely the NYT would make some kind of clear correction/retraction, rather than quietly deleting (part of) the report.
Protonmail gave up the recovery address. Apple gave up the name, physical address, and phone number associated with it.
I'm pretty sure they're advocating better taxing the PE firms looting billions, not the vets making $150k/year.
There were no cheaper places within driving distance? Seems like incredibly high pricing to not attract competitors opening up shop.
These have been cropping up regularly for years now. YouTube does nothing.
One reason is that printers inks do not have very dence pigment content. Pigment is the expensive part of paint/ink. Also, printers ink is very transparent, almost like a staining agent.

CMKY is basically a variant of the painter's RYB color space. A CMY mix using high quality painter's paints will get closer to black. However, generally mixing a black from primaries is waste of energy. Easier to mix from secondaries (e.g. an Alizarin Crimson with Ultramarine Blue).
> Proton provided us with an explanation that inbox contents remain secure.

Yup, until they receive a court order asking them to mitm an inbox, if they haven't already...

This entire system of "receive email in clear text but store it encrypted at rest" is smokes and shadows, really.
The heart of the issue is this:

> Under Swiss law, Proton Mail was compelled to collect and provide information on the individual’s IP address to Swiss authorities, who then shared it with French police.

They can claim all the privacy guarantees they want, but unless the privacy is guaranteed by cryptography, it's an empty gesture. Nobody is willing to do prison time to protect your privacy.
Will be interesting to see how the recent FTC non compete ban plays out in this space. It seems like a prime candidate to promote competition as the key licensing is held by the individual (the vet) as opposed to the company.
What about Sony playstation controllers? What could possibly go wrong. We spent millions on human factors engineering for the space program, but for version 2.0 and the gods of NIH ( not invented here) we are going with Dunning-kruiger.

"The core is going critical... Has anyone seen my charger?"

Brazil revisited.

(Brilliant discussion btw)
Note: The problem that scrubbed the launch has to do with a valve on the Atlas V's upper stage, nothing to do with Starliner.

Sensationalist headline is sensationalist, correct in the best kind of correct.
The fact that it’s technically illegal under federal law may be relevant in some context, but not to my specific point, which is about the effect of the law on individual behavior. As you acknowledge, the federal government isn’t enforcing the federal law. To people in states where it’s been legalized, the federal law is a legal technicality. I had to remind my Oregonian in-laws not to bring weed on the plane recently because they forgot that they’d be in federal jurisdiction passing through the airport. (Their logic was it’s legal in Oregon and legal in Maryland…)

My point is that the legal and cultural barriers that kept young adults from heading down to their local dispensary to buy dope have disappeared. So while we were on the cusp of freeing people from smoking in the 1990s, we have just made it easy and effectively legal to smoke a different thing, and everyone seems to have forgotten that inhaling smoke into your lungs is bad for you.
I don’t think it’s regulated much at all. It’s nothing like human medicine.

Their moat is that there aren’t many veterinarian schools.
> How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term?

Most dentists, veterinarians and such don’t want to deal with administering their businesses. Particularly in heavily-regulated states. Simplifying paperwork and making it easier for juniors to open their own practices (e.g. nullifying non-competed and making commercial leasing smoother) would negate this effect.

Private equity, in these situations, is a symptom of an unworkable bureaucratic overhead for small business. It’s not the poison, it’s the ulcer.
Yes, I'm hoping that holds up in SCOTUS.
I think a common problem is that these techniques get repurposed to solve problems that they weren't meant to. I have seen multiple people fall too often into the trap of using these visualizations to guess whether a dataset may be classified with high accuracy. I'm talking about cases where there already is a label - but viz. is used as a prior compute-cheap step to understand whether they would bother with classification at all, or should they pick a weak-vs-strong classifier, etc.

The problem of course is the insights from viz. provide "one-sided" information: IF your instances from different classes look separated, then you know that a decent classifier would do the job well. But if they don't appear separated, you don't know whether they can't be accurately classified: for all you know you don't have the right hyperparams. Also account for the fact that you're projecting d-dimensional data down to 2D/3D - this is heavily lossy; even with the right hyperparams there is a chance you won't see high separation. If you want to classify, just classify.
Only about whether they'd checked the wings were stuck on properly so nothing too life critical.

Wonderful reading. "Several people had been violating Company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed". No doubt that's rather faster than doing the testing.

It's especially good in the context of Boeing regulating itself.
Might be some selection bias happening. It's usually not the fancy neighborhoods that get a reputation for being humble and down to earth.
Show HN: Only gave myself one day to build this
(this app is for Google Search Console users)

Hey HN, I'm excited to share a project I built in 24 hours—a custom dashboard for Google Search Console that tackles a specific problem: saving research strategies. You can create filters for pages or keywords, save them via URL, and revisit anytime. Think "targeting underperforming pages easily."

Posting this here because I notice my own tendency to make things perfect... For me, this often comes at the expense of actually "doing". Last weekend I challenged myself to see what I could do in a day, this tool is the result of that.

It definitely isn't "great." It was built out of personal need in less than 24 hours.

That being said, please do not hold back on the roasting, I'll make sure to read anything you send and figure out if it can be thoughtfully incorporated into a future version.

Cheers,
Curtis
Limited discussion [0] (7 points, 1 month ago, 3 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895900
> Use a good VPN service to hide your IP address whenever possible. (Failure to do this is what compromised a Proton Mail user in France who was arrested after after police obtained IP logs.)

If your VPN is tied to a payment method then all you've done is give police one extra hop to follow to get at you, which wouldn't have saved this activist. Their list of VPNs only includes Mullvad in position 9 of 10, but as far as I'm aware it's the only one that offers payment methods that preserve your anonymity.
I think they should do like Mullvad claims and keep zero logs. You cannot share what you do not have.
Most are still quite far away from big cloud lock in levels.
As someone else who is currently into debate, I'll probably use this for flowing in the near-future. It's interesting that most people view debate as "who can make flashier speeches?" when the skills are more so about tracking and participating in very lengthy discussions.

I never fully grasped just how hard it is to understand and respond to what other people say until I got smoked by people who do it competitively.
> sustain yourself from age 65-100

Fortunately my life expectancy has dropped in the past few years!
If the PE firms buy up the practices and put all the vets in the area under a non-compete (not a hypothetical; see my other comments in this thread, it happened here in Rochester NY and is widespread practice), there aren't any vets to open a competitor.
> No, but it does define how (and where) I will write that code.

I don't follow your rationale here.

e.g. many people write packages for their own "nix user repository". https://github.com/nix-community/NUR or there are examples of fairly sophisticated programs which declare packages outside of nixpkgs, such as helix or llamacpp.

helix: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/flake.nix

llama: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/flake.nix

> yet at the same time keeps all its packages in a single monolithic source tree where none of that is allowed to be present

In a programming language, a function can be called with different arguments.

With Nix, since the packages are the result of functions, you can use these package definitions with whatever incompatibilities you like. -- I'm not sure what use case you're thinking of that Nix can't handle.
Proton Mail is in the title because it's where they went first, but the actual identification (real name, phone number etc.) seems to come from Apple on request for info related to the address.

In this case the email address was the lead, but I wonder what other info would be enough to get the phone provider to spill the beans. For instance would an IP address used at a specific time be uniquely identifying if it was VPNed by Apple at that moment ?

Or a Google Ad cookie that could get correlated to other devices showing similar behavior (the same way Google tracks households or related accounts) ?
I don't see how hanging-punctuation and JPEG2000 support are worth bringing up when they were so infamous for breaking websites with their poor IndexedDB support (for frankly a stupid amount of time) that it spawned the phrase: "Safari is the new IE".

Not to mention Webms, PWAs, pointer support, etc...
It's kind of boring at the beginning while you figure out where people are coming from, but if you do it genuinely and openmindedly, it's bound to get interesting.
Don't pretend that's easy.

Also running your own clinic is a huge distraction from actual medicine.

It's not sweet at all.
I'm not talking about road signs, which is completely irrelevant to problems common markets solve, I'm talking about how California can unilaterally apply its emissions regulations to the whole country, by virtue of being the largest, and most discriminating market in it.

Other states get the choice between not having cars, and following California's rules, despite having no input into them. Because it's uneconomical for manufacturers to produce custom, per-state models.

You're still forced to follow the rules, except that in the case of federal rules, you have democratic input into them, because you elect both the federal legislature and the executive.

In the case of non-federal rules, the largest state will set the rules for you, and you won't have any say in it (at least, if you want to have things like cars and drugs). That's not a choice.

Or, you could always take a look at how abortion rights are currently handled. Texas is suing people who get abortions in Colorado. Truly magical stuff. I'm sure the people in Colorado 'volunteered' for that.
Does anyone know whether the Palm UI/UX elements are protected by IP/patents? Meaning cannot use these ideas or elements in new projects without fear of a lawsuit from whoever owns the Palm IP legacy now.